For several years, we have been wondering when IBM would make a change like this. The customers are different from several perspectives — smaller customers tend to stick with ISV packaged solutions with less customization around them. Also, the technical skills and investments required to sell to these two customer bases, from an IBM Business Partner’s perspective, are very different.

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